CD-RW discs

[Thespian]

I created several word documents. I want to save them to a CD-RW. When I
re-opened the CD it said "Read Only". How can I re-open the CD and edit my
documents directly to the CD like you can on the old floppy diskettes. I had
to edit the documents on my hard drive, then re-save them to the CD. Is
there a way to by-pass that and edit directly onto the CD? I'm using
Microsoft Word 2002. Thank you.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word cannot work with documents on a CD (and you shouldn't be working with
documents on a diskette, either, unless you want to lose them). This is due
to the number of temporary files Word has to create in the working folder.

 

[Graham Mayor]

CDRW discs in Windows do not behave like 'big floppy' discs, unless you have
third party packet writing software such as InCD - but such systems are
notoriously unreliable. Never ever work directly from removable media.
Always copy back to the hard drive and uncheck the read-only property before
working on the file.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP


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